MHMicha van den Herik
Data & AI consultant·Amsterdam → Oslo

Micha van den Herik

I take AI from an ambiguous problem all the way to production.

Four years of enterprise AI delivery at Accenture, an engineering background, and a habit of owning the outcome. Moving to Oslo in November 2026.

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52.37°N 4.90°E
↓ 1,190 km north
59.91°N 10.75°E

About me

Strategy and build, in the same person.

Who I am

I'm Micha. I work where AI strategy turns into something that actually runs, and I like being the one who carries it there.

For the past four years at Accenture I've taken AI initiatives from a messy, half-defined question through discovery and pilot to production. That has taken me across high-tech, energy, retail, chemicals and banking. My background is in electrical engineering and data science, so I'm as comfortable in a build session with engineers as I am in front of senior management.

What drives me is ownership. I like to structure a problem, stay with it, and see it being used. A good slide deck helps, but the outcome is what I care about. That's also why I keep building things myself on the side: it keeps me honest about what I advise on.

Outside work I'm usually somewhere with elevation. Trail running, hiking, bouldering, or under a barbell. That pull towards mountains is a big part of why I'm moving to Norway.

Right now

Project lead for two high-priority AI use cases

At a global high-tech manufacturer, with teams in the Netherlands and Taiwan. Reporting to C-1.

Next chapter
AMS OSL

Relocating to Oslo from November 2026, and open to forward-deployed Data & AI roles where I own the result.

In numbers
4years of enterprise AI delivery
100+AI use cases prioritised into a roadmap
100+colleagues trained in agent development
Off the clock

Happiest on a trail

Trail running (UTMB)HikingBoulderingLifting
Follow on Strava ↗
Toolbox
GenAI & agentic AIUse-case discoveryPoC → MVPAI governanceAzure AI FoundryCopilot StudioClaude CodePython

Projects & builds

A space for what I build next.

Coming soon

New projects are on their way

I'm building on the side to stay close to the hands-on part of what I advise on. The first projects will appear here soon. Follow along on LinkedIn in the meantime.

Experience

The route so far. The full story is in my CV.

  1. SEP 2022 – NOW

    Senior Strategy Consultant, AI & Data

    Accenture · Amsterdam
    • Global high-tech manufacturerProject lead for two AI use cases: automated translation of confidential work instructions and a recommendation engine for material notifications.
    • International transmission system operatorRebuilt a GenAI delivery process that wasn't shipping and ran three use cases end to end, one speeding up high-voltage grid construction.
    • Global consumer retail companyDefined the agentic AI roadmap, including business case, savings per process and implementation path.
    • Chemicals, banking & utilitiesLeanIX and Copilot Studio strategy, AI model change process under global compliance, and a sequenced roadmap from 100+ use cases.
  2. 2021

    Graduate Intern

    Sensing Clues Foundation

    Built a digital-twin framework modelling wildlife populations in Kenya, combining agent-based simulation with ML predictions.

  3. 2020 – 2021

    AI Intern

    Mediaan

    Speech recognition and NLP models for videoconferencing.

  4. 2019

    Research Intern

    VBTI

    Reinforcement learning in the Atari Breakout environment.

Let's talk.

Working on something in Data & AI, in Oslo or beyond? I'm always up for a conversation.

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